Some who have made their "reservations", hoping to rejoin humanity in 100 years:
Seth MacFarlane, Larry King, Simon Cowell, Paris Hilton, Britney Spears...
Posted on 12/26/2016 1:26:33 PM PST by kevcol
Alcor, which began storing bodies in 1982, is one of the world's largest cryogenic facilities. It has 1,100 paying members on its books, and there are currently 149 patients at the facility, including the youngest person ever cryo-preserved (a two-year-old from Thailand), as well as baseball star Ted Williams.
"These people are potentially revivable – they are like people in a deep coma. They have rights, they can't just be disposed of at any time," More insisted.
The company has a watch list of members in declining health. A "standby" team is sent to be nearby the patient when he appears to be close to death.
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How does one get a job as a “futurist”?
I’m sure the Morlocks will enjoy having them for dinner.
If you took Barack Obama today, and cryogenically froze him, in hopes of reviving him in 200 years, I’d be OK with that.
Of course, you might be brought up on murder charges for freezing a living person, but I’d be prepared to take that risk for science.
But taking an already dead body and storing it in the freezer for a number of years and then hoping to make it live again? I think this is a whole ‘nother thing.
Isn’t Larry King already resuscitated?
So in other words when you are heaven having eternal life with loved ones and Jesus and are in paradise, next thing you know you are on gurney in a body that killed you in the first place and everyone you ever knew is gone. Nah, I’ll pass.
Probably jargon; they’re more likely working on technology to reanimate people. Personally I think they’re better off freezing test animals first; then figure out a way to thaw them with as few side effects as possible.
Personally I’d like to get frozen, then wake up to immortality. I want to test everything.
As Mister Burns once said to Smithers: “Very well... begin the thawing of Jim Nabors!”
So Hillary still hasn’t conceded?
Something tells me reanimating your body doesn’t have the power to snatch you out of the afterlife and put you back in said body. These folks are idiots. They don’t freeze people until they are already dead, so no, they aren’t coming back to life, now or ever. They are just frozen dead bodies.
Let’s see, they’d return to a world where they had no relatives, no friends and probably no money and no employable skills. Likely the culture shock would be significant. What would the world of the future want with them?
Most of the problems of old age simply can’t be fixed. Cells stop reproducing because they have clocks that shut them off so they don’t turn cancerous. It’s one of those double-edged swords. We are meant to stay healthy long enough to reproduce and raise offspring. Modern science has extended that time to about a hundred years, but my mother who is now 99 can do little for herself. Even though she is still relatively sharp dealing with the necessary government health and tax paperwork is beyond her.
Then there is the huge damage done by freezing. We are mostly water.
Crazy. Enjoy life while you are here and let the future take care of itself.
That was my first thought. How much does it pay? I could use a new gig. This one sounds pretty easy.
Read “Rammer” by Larry Niven.
Heck, the dead always rise on voting day here in America.
If they ever manage to revive anyone then they weren’t dead
they were only mostly dead. What a fun way to spend a century!
Do Walt Disney first. He will kill himself for good once he sees what they’ve done to his Magic Kingdom.
Who really wants to return to an 85 year old body?
Didn’t they cut Ted Williams head off and bat it around? Sad that he was never given proper burial and respect from that crazy son of his.
Democrats do it every election.
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